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I guess I just feel that the sheer volume of it on stupid social media and relative lack of accountability allows the gradual ratcheting down and blurring of lines between what's intended as ironic humor and what's just racism veiled in humor. Particularly because the "humor" is usually really stupid and/or absurd either way. In other words, the dismal tide. But there I go just being old again. /principalskinner
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I don't disagree with you in principle, and my poorly organized thoughts don't convey it well, but I am mentally picturing the flood of brain rot on TikTok and what's considered within bounds to shout at your derrrp buddies while playing Helldivers. A "professional" comedian who will be held accountable socially and economically for their hot takes is another fair issue for discussion, but not what I was envisioning, but thank you, as I was very unclear.
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This is only partially related, but it brings up something that has been bothering me for a long time in my boys' peer groups and social media shithole, which is the rise of casual racism as a hilarious joke. I'm still wrestling with it, and in some ways it's similar to the shock humor I grew up with in terms of dead baby jokes, Garbage Pail Kids, and Andrew Dice Clay. Maybe I'm just showing that I'm an old, but it makes me very uncomfortable and concerned, and I try to explain that to them. On the one hand, I can hope that on a generational level, maybe it's "meta" and such behavior from previous generations (particularly their grandparents') is so ludicrous as to be amusing to them in an ironic way. So in one way, they think they're done with racism as a serious mode of thought, and feel comfortable having a laugh at that. /sweetsummerchild.gif On the other, that requires that the recipient be aware and intelligent enough to recognize it as such -- not instilling a whole lot of confidence in me. Mine are smart enough to get that but have grown up in a relatively small town without a lot of diversity, so it's been on me to help them to understand that a portion of their peer group can't make that distinction, and that their minority friends get stuck in the position of trying to laugh it off, but also having to know that segment of their "friends" goes home to see those attitudes modeled in a very real and unironic way. It just worries me that it gives them false confidence that the world they're going into has gotten over it, and it softens their resistance to racism by blurring the lines of what's "acceptable" humor and what's a foothold for things that we taught them were unacceptable. Well, look at me, I'm ramblin' again. These are ill-formed thoughts, but it's been making me uncomfortable and giving me, as they would say, the ick. I should have just said that yes, social media is the worst, and also, the dismal tide.
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With regard to recent events, let's hope he doesn't need an MRI or accompany any player who does. Not gonna post the video.
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Another for the Lord Huron fans. Never released on an album outside of a soundtrack and for some reason hard to even find a decent version on Youtube. I missed the year they played it at Red Rocks. I probably would have broken.
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@mdmost, About Today might be the saddest dad song of all the sad dad songs. This is overall one of the saddest albums I've heard, but this is the beautiful, heart-wrenching nadir: I'll add this too, although the video isn't what I got out of the song:
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She was just trying to help you out with your blood counts. Sorry for partying.
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I've done some research on that and he has already filed a restraining order.
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Thanks @mdmost and @Sawbonz for the reassurance. I should know better to listen to some of these folks, especially as we are surrounded by aggy, and they are usually talking about things like CS and engineering programs down there. Guess that's what happens when you overwhelm your school with volume and drown what you could potentially be good at as a university. I double checked and his main considerations at this points (CSU, CU, and Mines) all have non-binding early action dates no earlier than Nov. 1, so I'll calm my tits. I'll try to get him to make UT's 10/15, even though I'm not sure it'd be right for him if he got in. None of his favorites at this point are true early decision. Ain't that the truth. One reason we're really trying to let him figure out where he's going to love being and get involved academically and socially. Some of the smartest, best, and most successful rads I work with did their undergrad at places like Angelo State, Tech, and even LSU.
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Somebody smack me upside the head, remind me not to listen to idiots (well, other than y'all), and soothe my parental anxiety. We keep hearing people say that they need to get their applications in as soon as they can! Don't wait! Competitive degree programs will fill up! They gotta have their Dip-Tet right this very minute! Mine is pulling out of his back to school funk and getting back into the groove, but I'd rather him take the time to put together a good looking application/essays. Possibly even wait until he does some re-visits in mid-October. My understanding is that as long as he's submitted by the November 1 early deadlines, he's good to go. That's what all the websites say. Somebody please just tell me that's correct so I can blow this off. I'm getting PTSD from the psychotic youth select baseball parent anxiety I spent so much time trying to avoid.
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@troph I used to wade in Keens and get lots of that on the shins and ankles from the wee leeches. Although I felt goofy about it at first, I switched to my wading boots and gravel guards and it's no longer a big issue around here. As I understand, they mostly live in the muck at the bottom, and those provide enough coverage to reduce my chances of a good bloodletting. Traction is also way better, although I still eat it on that slick limestone more often than I'd like.
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Not sorry that I missed Snek. I almost missed @Jerry Callo as I was looking for Jerry Gallo, but fortunately everything worked out. My son and I had a great time despite not catching much of note, but it was great to get out and to meet some really cool folks in the San Gabriel club. Joined up and hoping to make some more trips. This was as good as it got for me today, and evidently I'm dead and/or turning into Grimace by the color of my hands. Nice spot here which got chest deep quickly, until I slipped and made it neck deep. At least the leeches here are tiny.
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At one point, I heard Rice was thinking about being tuition-free if you get in. An ugly realization I've had to make during this process is that outside of Austin, SA, and maybe San Marcos, there really aren't any places in Texas my boys have any interest in living and going to school.
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You know who else was just following orders?
Damor replied to HornOnTheBayou's topic in Movies and TV
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Damor replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I believe in a flat 6,000 year old Earth, Bob Wheeler's bus reservations, soft core pornography, and that the popliteofibular ligament is a myth perpetrated by the Devil to swindle us out of our everlasting souls. -
No, no, no, y'all are confusing them with Blütpissklötten, who never made it out of the Koblenz underground scene aside from the one bootleg import I picked up at Technophilia in '94. But there are definite callbacks to the Krebsmusiksbewegung of the waning twentieth century.
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Aren't they opening for ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY, BOTOX INJECTION AND DIILATION?
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Damor replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
@BurntEyes We're happy it's just THC and EtOH. That's pretty square for Wasted State. Free bus runs to the bottom of the mountain multiple times a day. He's up there 3-5 times a week. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Damor replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
My kid goes to Western Colorado in Gunnison, and I figured it was abbreviated there as a safety measure to maintain SpO2 given the field elevation of 7700'. "SKO 'NEERS!!! gasp... gasp... ... hey honey, is the dispensary still open?" -
Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
Damor replied to Dbeasy's topic in Food and Travel
@Beau Vine, don't think there hasn't been an unsent PM in my drafts with your name on it for a long time now. But thanks, now when I hit send it won't look like I'm stalking. -
Yeah, well, I went to the creek out back after work yesterday. Look upon my catch, ye mighty, and despair.
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I'll follow you back over here from the Colorado Vacation thread, at least until we get our own "My Kid is a Colorado Expat for College" forum. I'd like to get my son to look at Trinity as well if he thinks he wants to stay in Texas at all. They have an online estimator of what financial aid you could expect. Still not cheap (and probably close to Colorado OOS), but I've heard a lot of great things. You could look at Fort Lewis in Durango as a smaller liberal arts school. If you have any documented Native American ancestry, that can help financially as they were founded as a Native American school. As I said in the other thread, my nephew is starting there in the fall. If you haven't been, it's a really cool town and area, though far removed from the Front Range. Has she thought about Wyoming? My older one visited there and I was pretty impressed for the size of the school, but the weather is not for the faint-hearted, and like CSU, it's not right in the mountains. I don't remember what financials looked like OOS, but it's not a 'premium' like CU these days. If she wants to be a therapist, seems she should be thinking about a master's anyway, and I'd say that a solid and healthy well-rounded college experience will mean a lot more to her and her future clients than any big names for undergrad, although if we could get any resident therapists like @TenaciousTgarden to chime in, that would be much more valuable info that any I would have. And while mine might apply to Texas but is just outside the auto-admit range, my understanding is that admission to the delightful College of Liberal Arts (which I'd think psych is) is an easier get than CS or McCombs or Engineering or those other automaton-robot majors (Plan II bias showing here).
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Regardless, some poor ultrasound tech had to get all up in those baggy inguinal regions. Probably a lot of crusty ketchup in those folds, if not a half-eaten Big Mac and a few thousand rubles of folding money.
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Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
Damor replied to Dbeasy's topic in Food and Travel
At least a timeshare condo. I'm not cleaning up the hot tub if anyone brings South Austin's mom, though.
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